Telenet Hotels Network | Serbia Hotel Drina, Bajina Basta Media Center Bajina Basta Phone: +38164 5558581; +38161 6154768; www.booking-hotels.biz [email protected] Hotel Drina, Bajina Basta Hotel Drina has 20 single rooms, 58 double rooms, and 7 apartments. Guest of hotel can enjoy in hotel restaurant, summer garden, and in the big concert hall. Hotel has everything for summer and winter holidays. Hotel Drina is located 158km from airport, and 38km from railway station. Tara's national park was established in 1981 and it encompasses Tara and Zvijezda mountains, in a large bend of the Drina River. The size of the park is about 220 square kilometers with altitudes varying from 250 to 1,500 meters above sea level. The park's management office is located in nearby Bajina Basta. The national park consists of a group of mountain peaks with deep picturesque gorges between them. The most striking of these gorges is the Drina Gorge, with its sheer drops from 1000-250 meters and extensive views of western Serbia and nearby Bosnia. The area is also characterised by karst caves, pits, springs, and breathtaking vista points. The national park consists of a group of mountain peaks with deep picturesque gorges between them. The most striking of these gorges is the Drina Gorge, with its sheer drops from 1000-250 meters and extensive views of western Serbia and nearby Bosnia. The area is also characterised by karst caves, pits, springs, and breathtaking vista points. Forests account for three quarters of this national park's area, some of them being the best preserved and well-kept in Europe. Tara also boasts a rare endemic Tertiary species, the Picea omorika, or Serbian Spruce, which is now protected in a small area of the park. Because of its rarity and scientific importance, it has been placed under national protection. Locally, Tara is home to many different species of wildlife, including brown bears, chamois, roe deer, lynxes, otters, wolves and others. More than 100 bird species also make their temporary or permanent homes on the slopes of the mountain: the golden eagle, the griffon vulture, the peregrine falcon, the Eurasian eagle owl, the black grouse, among many others. The Tara National Park can be reached from Bajina Basta directly [by the Bajina Basta - Kaludjerske Bare road], from Perucac via Bajina Basta [by the Perucac - Mitrovac road] and from Kremna [the Kremna - Kaludjerske Bare road]. The Drina Gorge, which is an integral part of the park, can be toured by boat. page 1 / 10 Tara National Park is home to Mitrovac, a children's recreational center and several hotel facilities, including Hotel Beli Bor, Hotel Omorika [a large hotel with many conference services], and Hotel Tara. Bajina Basta Serbia As an old Slavic legend goes, Mountain Tara got its name after the friendly god Tarr who had chosen this very mountain to spend his divine life there thanks to its outstanding natural beauties [taken from the Slavic mythology]. The oasis of such unspoiled beauty can't be easily nowadays, but one of them is surely Mt.Tara in Western Serbia. Tara is confined by the Drina river to the north, the rivers Derventa and Beli Rzav to the west, the ravines of Mokra Gora and Kemna to the south and the rivers Pilica and Solotuska Reka to the east. The greater part of Tara belongs to Bajina Basta municipality and the lesser one to Uzice. Due to its picturesque scenery and its natural rarities Tara was proclaimed a national park in 1981. Tara National Park covers an area of 19.175 hectares including Mt.Tara,Crni Vrh,Zvezda ,Stolac,the Canyon of Drina with Perucac and outskirts of Bajina Basta.These mountains are the eastern branches of the Dinaric System with similar structure and direction northwest-southeast were the Drina cut a deep and picturesque canyon valley. In geomorphologic sense the whole area of Tara National Park is composed of mountain hills and elevations.The average altitude is 1000-1200 m. The highest peak is Kozji rid with14.84 1591 m above sea level. The hills are clad in dense forest and grass vegetation, wich makes possible the existence of variety of games. Spots with a beautiful view over the whole area are especially attractive for tourists and mountain climbers. Such scenery is particularly impressive and is remembered for a long time. The best known views are Banjska stena at Mitrovac, Biljeska Stena 6 km from Predov Krst,Crnjeskovo at Kaludjerske Bare, Omar, Zboriste. Waterfalls within the national park are also part of its impressive beauty alog the course of mountain rivers and streams. The most attractive waterfalls are in Perucac under Tara, called Mali nad Veliki Skakavac on River Rzav and some bigger and smaller cascades on the rivers Rzav, Derventa and Raca. The wonderful canyon of Drina river [700-1000m deep] is second in Yugoslavia after the Canyon of Tara river [1300m] in Monte Nagro and third in the world after the Grand Canyon of the Colorado river [1800m] in America. The vertical cliffs of Canyon of the Drina River and its tributaries are particularly interesting for the mountain hangers and alpinists. By construction the concrete dam [461 m long and 89, 9 km high] on Drina river at Perucac the artificial lake with the same name was formed [52 km long]. The lake has a great tourist value and importance for lovers of cruising, fishing and swimming. Another important anthropogenous hydrographic creation is reservoir Lake Zaovine.It was formed by damming the upper course of small river called Beli Rzav at18.36 892 m height above sea level. This lake also offers great opportunities for development of tourism and fishing. In the area of Mt.Tara there are a number of springs and lost rivers. The most important cast springs are at Perucac and Ladjevac. The Perucac spring is a place where Vrelo, the shortest river in Serbia starts. It is also called a Year river because it is33.36 365 m long. The Ladjevac spring has its headwaters in the Canyon of Raca not so far from the Raca Monastery and it is famous for its thermal, mineral and healing powers. Basic value of this area is shown through the richest and biodiversity of natural resources. Riches of flora are caused by different factors such as geographic position, parent rock, favorable climate, historical events and altitude. About 1/3 of total flora of Serbia can be found in the area of Tara National Park. More then 1 000 plants species as well as 34 forest and meadow associations are identified there. Over 80 % Tara's surface is covered with mixed associations of spruce, fir-tree and beech with dominates the vast plateau. Various plant such as Picea omorika, Taxsus baccata, Ilex aqufolium, Corylus colurna, Centaurea derventana, Peonia corallina, Gentiana asclepiadea, Gentiana lutea, Daphne blagayana, Veratrum nigrum, Blechnum spicant and many other are protected by the Law. Picea omorika [Serbian spruce] is endemite and the Tertiary relict of Tara whose natural stands are now days reduced only to the area around he middle course of River Drina .It was discovered by famous botanists Josif Pancic in 1875 in the village Zaovine. Within Tara National park the most important natural stands and localities of Picea omorika are particularly protected as the strictly preserve grounds. More then 250 edible and very poisonous mushrooms can be found on the forest and meadow slopes. Edible mushrooms of high quality are: forest Boletus, meadow mushroom, beech mushroom, moel and many others. The richest of fauna are reflected in the presence of various rare and in many parts of Europe even disappeared, reduced in number, or scientifically important animal species such as chamois, bear and the Alps shrew. Among hunting games on Tara page 2 / 10 the most popular ones are: roe deer, wild boar, wolf, fox, rabbit, marten, and wild cat. There are many rare birds such as: golden eagle, harrier eagle, peregrine falcon, big grouse, and woodcock. About 53 mammal species and 82 birds survived in this area. On the basis of data, in the waters of National park Tara there are 37 fish species which are classified in nine families among which the best known are trout, pikes, carps, sheatfish, perches and others. The real natural rarity protected by the Law is certainly huchen [family of trouts Salmonidae]. The region of Tara is affected by moderate -continental mountain climate which has the highest degree of humidity, compared to central and eastern parts of Serbia. The most important and most attractive cultural-historical value of this region is the Raca Monastery, 7km far from Bajina Basta. This Monastery of holly Assumption of Christ was built in the village Raca, on the right bank of the small river with same name in the second half of the 12 century during the region of King Dragutin Nemanjic.... Serbia Serbia has connected West with East for centuries a land in which civilisations, cultures, faiths, climates and landscapes meet and mingle. It is located in the centre of the Balkan Peninsula, in southeastern Europe. The northern portion belongs to central Europe, but in terms of geography and climate it is also partly a Mediterranean country. Serbia is landlocked but as a Danube country it is connected to distant seas and oceans. Serbia is a crossroads of Europe and a geopolitically important territory. The international roads and railway lines, which run through the countrys river valleys, form the shortest link between Western Europe and the Middle East. From the agricultural regions of the Pannonian Plain in the north, across the fertile river valleys and orchard-covered hills of umadija, the landscape of Serbia continues southward, gradually giving way to mountains rich in canyons, gorges and caves, as well as well-preserved forests.